If the New York Knicks are going to implement more five-out basketball into their offense, they’ll need Josh Hart and Mitchell Robinson to coexist in separate units. Given the limitations of both on the more glamorous end, this is not a given.
Staggering Robinson and Hart, in fact, is among the biggest arguments for starting Mitch rather than running five-out from the jump with Deuce McBride. The two are not an intuitive pair on offense. Defenses don’t need to guard Robinson too high up the floor, and they won’t care about sagging off Hart or going under him on screens.